VCO Pack for Prophet X

Gerry Havinga · « **Reply #40 on:** April 26, 2019, 07:16:33 AM »

Thank you so much Lady Gaia and development team. I collected my Prophet X yesterday afternoon from the shop and started exploring it yesterday evening till late. Deeply impressed and moved by "her" sound design capabilities, quality of the samples is out of this world, filter is smooth as an "androids' bottom".

Last thing I did was loading the Neutron samples into the user 3 bank. Awesome, really looking forward loading the rest this weekend.

And of course thank you Dave and team Sequential/DSI for developing and bring to market such a great instrument.

Lady Gaia · « **Reply #41 on:** April 26, 2019, 11:11:11 AM »

I’m very pleased to hear you’re enjoying your Prophet X, Gerry, and I’m glad to have contributed in some way to that experience. I have to agree, Dave and crew did a phenomenal job of delivering a sweet sounding modern hybrid with enormous potential. I hope you’ll post more when you’ve had enough time with her to decide what speaks to you most about the instrument.

blewis · « **Reply #42 on:** April 27, 2019, 02:09:55 PM »

If you like the Neutron samples, wait til you hear the OB6 ones. I did the Neutron samples and like them, but those OB6 from AlanC3 are great!

Gerry Havinga · « **Reply #43 on:** April 28, 2019, 10:27:58 PM »

Quote from: blewis on April 27, 2019, 02:09:55 PM

If you like the Neutron samples, wait til you hear the OB6 ones. I did the Neutron samples and like them, but those OB6 from AlanC3 are great!

Just made my first patch with the Voyager square wave sample this weekend. Two squares slightly detuned, running an LFO over the filter cutoff with a sprinkle of resonance, slight beat introduced with synced BB Delay. The sound fills the entire room, awesome! I love the ability to combine the choir and strings like sample patches, soft and gentle, on the other layer, with a huge synth sound.

For years I've tried to create these kind of patch combinations using my ol' Akai S5000 and out board effects. I have been partially successful, but it can take days before I have a combination I like. The Prophet X workflow makes this possible in an instance - I love it.

Will try the OB6 samples later this week, thanks for the tip

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I "had" to load the Neutron samples first as a rather futile gesture towards our "friends" at Behringer......

armenjc · « **Reply #44 on:** May 03, 2019, 07:28:09 PM »

Thank you for these! They're fantastic and I can tell how much work went into editing these, keeping the amplitudes consistent and the looping smooth. Great job!

nb2789 · « **Reply #45 on:** December 23, 2019, 12:28:05 AM »

MASSIVE thanks to everyone involved in this, Lady G in particular.

I'm a new PX owner and just put these VCOs on this morning. Sounds amazing!...and the process was so quick and easy with the clear instructions provided.

Lady Gaia · « **Reply #46 on:** December 23, 2019, 05:55:32 PM »

I’m always happy to hear these are working well for people. It didn’t take long after I bought my Prophet X to conclude that having simple raw material like this would be something I’d reach for again and again. I was fascinated to find others felt much the same and that there is so much interest in the VCO Pack, both from a contribution perspective in the beginning and in terms of ongoing downloads. It’s amazing to me how much difference something like subtle variation in the harmonic makeup of a sawtooth waveform can make!

Tripomatic · « **Reply #47 on:** March 01, 2020, 04:33:17 PM »

Can anybody give me some advice how to install the VCO pack correctly? When I try to install it, I can only find the two instruments "stacked OSCs" pack in userbank 3 of my Prophet X.

Lady Gaia · « **Reply #48 on:** March 03, 2020, 07:41:01 AM »

Quote from: Tripomatic on March 01, 2020, 04:33:17 PM

Can anybody give me some advice how to install the VCO pack correctly? When I try to install it, I can only find the two instruments "stacked OSCs" pack in userbank 3 of my Prophet X.

The pack consists of five individual downloads. They can be installed all at once, or one at a time, by following the instructions on the ThinkerSnacks site (under the heading "Instructions".)

The main thing to make sure of is your directory structure, which should look like this: \px\u02\15 Synth

Inside the 15 Synth directory you should have a bunch of .zip files, one for each instrument. I hope that helps!

Tripomatic · « **Reply #49 on:** March 05, 2020, 01:12:56 PM »

Quote from: Lady Gaia on March 03, 2020, 07:41:01 AM

Quote from: Tripomatic on March 01, 2020, 04:33:17 PM
Can anybody give me some advice how to install the VCO pack correctly? When I try to install it, I can only find the two instruments "stacked OSCs" pack in userbank 3 of my Prophet X.

The pack consists of five individual downloads. They can be installed all at once, or one at a time, by following the instructions on the ThinkerSnacks site (under the heading "Instructions".)

The main thing to make sure of is your directory structure, which should look like this: \px\u02\15 Synth

Inside the 15 Synth directory you should have a bunch of .zip files, one for each instrument. I hope that helps!

Thank you! I got it installed.

tigeir · « **Reply #50 on:** March 29, 2020, 12:25:20 PM »

Quote from: Lady Gaia on March 11, 2019, 12:00:10 PM

The password protected .zip archives are not intended to be extracted prior to installation. Just put them in the appropriate directory structure on a USB device:

\px\u02\15 Synth\

The Prophet X loads these directly and decrypts them internally. This process has confused a few people, so I’ll update the instructions on the ThinkerSnacks site to clarify further.

Hi
I am a previous owner of the Prophet X, and I now own a OB6. I have a Nord Wave 2 coming to me next week, and I am busy converting my favorite samples to the Nord format. It is very easy with the new editor from nord.

The VCO sample pack you greatly contributed to make a reality is one of my all time favorite sample packs. It gave the PX something it missed. To continue to appreciate these samples in my wave 2 I would need to unzip the px files to access the wav files. It worked like a charm with the Moog One sample pack. I have deep respect if you don´t want to share the password to wave files. I know you put a lot of work in to it. If it however was to protect users from making mistakes when installing onto the px, I would be very happy if i could continue to enjoy these samples as I have done for a while now. Same person different instrument, so to speak

Best wishes from Norway

Lady Gaia · « **Reply #51 on:** March 29, 2020, 12:55:21 PM »

Quote from: tigeir on March 29, 2020, 12:25:20 PM

The VCO sample pack you greatly contributed to make a reality is one of my all time favorite sample packs. It gave the PX something it missed. To continue to appreciate these samples in my wave 2 I would need to unzip the px files to access the wav files. It worked like a charm with the Moog One sample pack. I have deep respect if you don´t want to share the password to wave files. I know you put a lot of work in to it. If it however was to protect users from making mistakes when installing onto the px, I would be very happy if i could continue to enjoy these samples as I have done for a while now. Same person different instrument, so to speak

I'm delighted to hear you found the samples especially valuable. As it happens, the VCO Pack was constructed using 8Dio's utility before I started work on PXToolkit. That utility encrypted installable archives without asking, using a password scheme that is presumably intended to protect samples from being used anywhere but the Prophet X.

PXToolkit, on the other hand, doesn't encrypt anything which is why you're seeing more recent sample packs showing up without encryption. Of course I have all the original raw samples, so it wouldn't be especially difficult to package them up again and replace all the files currently available for download. Or at least, it wouldn't be difficult if I wasn't currently a few thousand miles away from my backups while waiting out a global pandemic.

Hopefully things return to normal and I'll be back where all the raw samples are in June or July. Sorry I can't readily put something together sooner!

tigeir · « **Reply #52 on:** March 29, 2020, 01:29:51 PM »

Quote from: Lady Gaia on March 29, 2020, 12:55:21 PM

Quote from: tigeir on March 29, 2020, 12:25:20 PM
The VCO sample pack you greatly contributed to make a reality is one of my all time favorite sample packs. It gave the PX something it missed. To continue to appreciate these samples in my wave 2 I would need to unzip the px files to access the wav files. It worked like a charm with the Moog One sample pack. I have deep respect if you don´t want to share the password to wave files. I know you put a lot of work in to it. If it however was to protect users from making mistakes when installing onto the px, I would be very happy if i could continue to enjoy these samples as I have done for a while now. Same person different instrument, so to speak

I'm delighted to hear you found the samples especially valuable. As it happens, the VCO Pack was constructed using 8Dio's utility before I started work on PXToolkit. That utility encrypted installable archives without asking, using a password scheme that is presumably intended to protect samples from being used anywhere but the Prophet X.

PXToolkit, on the other hand, doesn't encrypt anything which is why you're seeing more recent sample packs showing up without encryption. Of course I have all the original raw samples, so it wouldn't be especially difficult to package them up again and replace all the files currently available for download. Or at least, it wouldn't be difficult if I wasn't currently a few thousand miles away from my backups while waiting out a global pandemic.

Hopefully things return to normal and I'll be back where all the raw samples are in June or July. Sorry I can't readily put something together sooner!

Yes, we have bigger problems than samples these days. Hope you are ok. I look forward to use the VCO sample pack on my wave 2 when all this is over. Stay healthy

Lady Gaia · « **Reply #53 on:** March 29, 2020, 03:12:45 PM »

Quote from: tigeir on March 29, 2020, 01:29:51 PM

Yes, we have bigger problems than samples these days. Hope you are ok. I look forward to use the VCO sample pack on my wave 2 when all this is over. Stay healthy

Likewise! Looking after ourselves and those around us simply has to be a priority at the moment. I'm fortunate enough to have had a choice of where to be, and opted for our residence on Maui as a sparsely populated and isolated location that seemed as well suited as anywhere.

rcmusic35 · « **Reply #54 on:** May 11, 2022, 11:11:29 AM »

Hello,

Just installed VCOs and the piano. Thanx a lot to everyone involved, especially Lady Gaia. Excellent quality.

Lady Gaia · « **Reply #55 on:** May 13, 2022, 12:25:58 PM »

Quote from: rcmusic35 on May 11, 2022, 11:11:29 AM

Just installed VCOs and the piano. Thanx a lot to everyone involved, especially Lady Gaia. Excellent quality.

I'm delighted to hear you're enjoying the content. All the initial sampling work came from other contributors who were kind enough to share their work, and it's amazing how these sources of rich harmonic content with a little natural note-to-note variation can spice up the sound design process in conjunction with the Prophet X's luscious filters.

Seelezerkleiner · « **Reply #56 on:** July 31, 2023, 02:05:52 AM »

I have found an issue with the Erebus Square VCO. When I play the D2 it only sounds for a moment then will remain silent until the instrument selection is switched.

Lady Gaia · « **Reply #57 on:** July 31, 2023, 11:13:11 AM »

Quote from: Seelezerkleiner on July 31, 2023, 02:05:52 AM

I have found an issue with the Erebus Square VCO. When I play the D2 it only sounds for a moment then will remain silent until the instrument selection is switched.

Huh. That sample does indeed seem to be problematic. I did a quick scan of file sizes for everything else and it's the only one that's suspiciously short. Sadly, that's also true of the raw source file I was provided so I don't have a way to recover that particular sample.

Can you try a replacement for that instrument and let me know if it works for you? The VCO Pack set was produced using the original 8dio utility before work started on PXToolkit. The file linked here is a recreation of the instrument using the more modern utility. I've eliminated the problematic D2 sample and just stretched the healthy C2# sample up a semitone to cover the gap. Download the zip linked below and decompress it to get a px/ directory you can install directly to overwrite the problem instrument (it assumes you used the original User 3 location, rename the nested u02 subdirectory if needed to change the installation location.)

Seelezerkleiner · « **Reply #58 on:** July 31, 2023, 03:37:31 PM »

That VCO now works perfectly! I don't know why I'm surprised about how quickly you got this resolved, considering how helpful you seem to be here in general. I wanted to do the same fix but couldn't due to the password protection. I can't believe nobody else has caught this. Thank you so much!

Lady Gaia · « **Reply #59 on:** July 31, 2023, 05:40:45 PM »

Quote from: Seelezerkleiner on July 31, 2023, 03:37:31 PM

That VCO now works perfectly!

I'm glad to hear it and I really appreciate you finding and bringing the issue to my attention in the first place. As you note, it has been this way for four years without prior discovery! I've given the fix a slightly more permanent home here for anyone who is already using the VCO pack and have corrected the full Erebus download as well for anyone who comes across the VCO pack down the road.

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I don't know why I'm surprised about how quickly you got this resolved, considering how helpful you seem to be here in general.

I'm not always able to take care of things this quickly, but I'm glad it worked out today. I had been waiting for a hybrid synth like the Prophet X for quite some time so I dove in pretty hard on day one trying to address what I saw as shortcomings on the software side of things. I'm always pleased to hear from others who benefit from the time I've put in.